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The Lancaster County Council on Aging board meets at 3:30 p.m. March 19 in the Prime Time for Seniors Senior Center, 309 S. Plantation Road, Lancaster. For details or to RSVP, call (803) 285-6956, extension 23.

The Lancaster Shag Club will host a St. Patrick’s Day Dance from 8-11:30 p.m. March 17 at the Lancaster Moose Lodge, 200 Shrine Moose Drive, Lancaster. Admission is $5 for shag club members and $8 for everyone else.

Annual Freedom Fund Banquet

The Kershaw Branch of the NAACP will hold the annual Freedom Fund Banquet at 6 p.m. March 17 at the recreation center, 6354 Matson St., Kershaw.

INDIAN LAND – Firefighters were working like mad Thursday afternoon to battle a spreading fire that had already destroyed three houses in the Sun City Carolina Lakes subdivision off U.S. 521.
Personnel from the Indian Land and Pleasant Valley fire stations were called to Daffodil Court in the active adult community just after 3:30 p.m. for a brush fire.
However, before they arrived, it had already spread to engulf one home.

Jeff Moyer, Buford High School’s beloved “Coach Mo,” died before dawn Tuesday, less than a month after learning he had brain cancer. He was 65.
Moyer played many roles on the school’s athletic staff, including head basketball coach and assistant football coach. He could be gruff and demanding, but players knew he loved them.
“He was so good with kids. He knew what he was doing,” said former BHS football coach Mike Wells, who retired as the Jackets’ athletics director last year.

Hal Crenshaw has sold one of Lancaster County’s most recognizable small businesses, Crenco Food Stores, which grew out of the company his father started a half century ago.
The group of five convenience stores was purchased this week by Virginia-based GPM Southeast, the sixth-largest private owner of convenience stores in the country.
The sale has been in the works for months – GPM applied for beer and wine permits several weeks ago – but Crenshaw had refused to talk about it until the transaction was completed.

After four months of undercover work, Lancaster County sheriff’s investigators and deputies fanned out across the county Tuesday to round up 28 drug suspects.
By the end of the day, they had arrested 15 of them on 48 charges, plus four people charged with other offenses unrelated to the Drug Task Force’s work.
According to the arrest warrants, each of the drug suspects had been involved in an undercover transaction between October 2017 and February 2018.

INDIAN LAND – A fire whipped by strong winds quickly destroyed three houses and damaged two others Thursday afternoon at Sun City Carolina Lakes.
An army of firefighters rushed to the scene from at least six departments, extinguishing the blaze after a little more than two hours. No residents or firefighters were injured.

A Lancaster man and woman suffered burns during a fire at their home on Country Club Drive early Sunday morning.
Murray Montgomery was transported by Lancaster County EMS to Springs Memorial Hospital and treated for burns and smoke inhalation.
The woman, whose name had not been released Tuesday, was first flown to Palmetto Richland Hospital, then sent to the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta, Ga., where she was treated for severe injuries.

A Charlotte teen was arrested in Indian Land for trafficking cocaine and possession of marijuana with intent to sell after a curious deputy followed a hunch and tailed the teen’s car.
Justice Blake Mendler, 19, was arrested March 5 in an incident that began shortly before midnight at the Indian Land McDonald’s.
The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office incident report said the deputy was patrolling the restaurant parking lot when he saw Mendler’s Ford Focus pulling out and noticed the three passengers in the car watching him as they rode away.